ISBN: 9780439769273
Editorial: Cartwheel Books
Año de edición: 2005
Edición: 1
N° Paginas: 40
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Scenes from Clement Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas inspire twelve elegant and fascinating compositions where readers search for dozens of intriguing hidden objects.The first photograph, The Night Before Christmas, features a gingerbread house, Christmas cookies, candles, bulbs, and more. Visions of Sugarplums is an abstract composition of Christmas confections; and Such a Clatter! is a dynamic explosion of objects. In It Must Be Saint Nick, Santa is shown in shadow; and in A Bundle of Toys, the presents in Santa's sack are revealed as a magnificent jumble. The final photograph, Happy Christmas to All is a beautiful, pastoral landscape, lustrous under new-fallen snow. The original poem is printed on the endpapers. Can You See What Críticas SLJ 10/1/05WICK, Walter. Can You See What I See?: The Night Before Christmas: Picture Puzzles to Search and Solve. illus. by author. 35p. with CD. CIP. Scholastic/Cartwheel. Oct. 2005. Tr $13.99. ISBN 0-439-76927-2. LC 2005005644. K-Gr 2-Wick's familiar I Spy formula-rhymed text that lists objects in juxtaposed double-page illustrations, with the invitation for viewers to locate those objects-is here tied loosely to the Clement Moore poem. The poem itself is printed on the endpapers and is not referred to further except in short phrases such as All Snug as headings for the photographs of Christmas decorations, cookies, candies, and toys. Libraries owning copies of Wick and Jean Marzollo's I Spy Christmas (Scholastic, 1992) can skip this one.-S. P.HB Nov/DecWalter Wick Can You See What I See?: The Night before Christmas: Picture Puzzles to Search and Solve; illus. with photos by the author40 pp. Cartwheel/Scholastic 10/05 isbn 0-439-76927-2 $13.99(Primary, Intermediate)It's not a Christmas miracle, but it's pretty awesome. Wick's captivating color-photo picture-puzzle tableaux illustrate fragments (such a clatter!; new fallen snow) plucked from Clement Clarke Moore's classic The Night before Christmas, the text of which is reproduced on the book's endpapers. The rhymes accompanying each double-page spread are forgettable (Can you see / what I see? / A penguin, a pie, / a red candy heart, / 3 little elves, / a bear in a cart), but the art is up to Wick's usual standards and then some. Each panoramic image -- a toy nook, complete with miniature bedroom (all snug); a wallpaper-like assemblage of holiday confections (visions of sugarplums) -- reveals the most minuscule of details, right down to the last white dot on a nonpareil. nell beramKirkus 11/1/05The co-creator of the I Spy series uses a similar format in this holiday offering full of glowing photographs of tiny toys and sweet treats. As in previous volumes, readers can search each spread for the miniature items craftily hidden within, enumerated in rhyming lists in large type next to each photograph. Wick uses phrases from the familiar lines of A Visit from Saint Nicholas as an organizational framework for his lush photos of a cozy house on Christmas Eve all decked out for Santa's arrival. (He includes the poem on the endpapers.) Some spreads focus on one area of the house and others on single images from the poem, such as a whirlwind of sugarplums or an open bundle of toys. Eagle-eyed readers will spot additional clever details such as a recurring white dove and the gabled house in a snow globe that duplicates the home featured throughout. This volume covers much of the same holiday territory as I Spy Christmas by Marzollo and Wick (1992), but fans of this sort of picture puzzle will welcome another challenging Christmas brainteaser. (author's note) (Picture book. 3- Biografía del autor Walter Wick is the photographer of the international bestselling I Spy series as well as the author and photographer of the acclaimed Can You See What I See? series. He lives with his wife, Linda, in Miami Beach, Florida.
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Wick, Walter
- Editorial: Cartwheel Books
- N° Paginas: 40
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
